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arrogance
«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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Funny,
Golf
| Keywords:
arrogance, deflated, deflates, deflating, exhibition, overweening, soured, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.»
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
(Critic, Educator, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
arrogance, fairly, shabbier, shabby
«Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogance, early, former, humility, hypocritical
«For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.»
Author: Hal Borland
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arrogance, bud, denial, falters, opening, sophistication, tuft, tufts
«Hypocrisy, arrogance, pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance; these are the marks of those who are born with demonic qualities, O Arjuna.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
Arjuna, arrogance, demonic, harshness, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, Marks, pride, qualities
«Arrogance - The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.»
Author: Larry Kersten
(Author, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
arrogance, brute, inspire, intimidation, option
«Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arrogance, merit, offensive, on the offensive
«It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
arrogance, career, contempt, finish, hypocrisy, proceed, This Man, to begin with